Chickpea Doula Services-Nikki Campagnolli

03/19/2023

What a perfect place to grow and heal

Milia föddes två månader för tidigt, men har varken lagts i kuvös eller skiljts från sina föräldrar. Istället har Milia fått ligga hud mot hud med både mamma och pappa sedan födelseögonblicket. Det tack vare ett nytt arbetssätt som används på sjukhusen i Gävle och Hudiksvall.

– Personalen är helt otroliga. Förlossningen var tidig och oväntad, men ändå lugn och trygg, säger Milias mamma Sophia Pihlajainen.

Ett nyfött barn behöver uppleva närhet och få värme, även om det fötts för tidigt eller är sjukt. Det nya arbetssättet innebär att det nyfödda barnet läggs direkt efter födseln på mammans bröst där det får stanna, där får barnet också den vård de behöver. Hud- mot hudmetoden började som ett projekt men är nu ett etablerat arbetssätt inom BB, förlossningen och kvinnosjukvården i Region Gävleborg. Vinsten är friskare barn och mammor och trygga familjer.

– Anknytningen mellan barnet och mamman påverkas positivt. Det leder till kortare vårdtider och hela familjen känner sig trygg och nöjd, säger barnsköterskan Stina Lundin på neonatalavdelningen i Gävle.

– Det vi kan se är att vi har färre inlagda barn med låg kroppstemperatur och kuvöserna används nu alltmer sällan, säger Jennika Pettersson som varit projektledare.

Läs mer om projektet och bakgrunden till det: https://www.regiongavleborg.se/nyheter/noll-separation-ger-friskare-barn-och-trygga-familjer/

03/21/2019

02/10/2019

'I've been rocking and cuddling my baby to sleep since that day he was born. I mentioned this to a nurse at my clinic recently. She said that she did the same thing with her son, and everyone warned her that she would still have a teenager sleeping in her bed. And then she told me that, a few weeks ago, her teenage son came home from school very upset. He didn't want to talk, and just went to his room and listened to his music, typed on his phone and cried. The mother gave her son space, and night time came and she went to bed. Just as she was about to turn off her side light, the door opened, and her 15 year old padded into the room. He climbed into the bed with her, laid his head on her shoulder and cried. He told her all about the girl that broke his heart, all about the friends who laughed, all about the stresses of being him. She told him about her first broken heart, about friends who'd been cruel, and told him she understands. They talked in the dark for hours, until he feel asleep in her bed. Still sad but relieved after their talk.
'So you see' she said to me, when she finished the story. 'I was so scared that I wound wind up with a teenager who would 'need me' at night, that I never stopped to consider how beautiful that would really be.'

Above story by the beautiful L.R.Knost - Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources

When we stop listening to the unnecessary noise around us, we begin to tune in to who is right in front of us.

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01/18/2019

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓:
"Your Breasts Are Able to Detect Even a One Degree Drop in Your Baby’s Temperature and Warm Up"

You are the best incubator/warmer there is.

Wrapping that baby up like a little burrito is only necessary if he/she will be away from you. But the best way to keep her warm in the early days is to cuddle with them skin-to-skin with a blanket over the two of you.

Your skin contact means that baby will have to expend fewer calories regulating her own temperature. ❤❤❤

𝐓𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 My Baby Experts Community 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠.𝐜𝐨𝐦

01/18/2019

Science is finally coming around to the fact that being of advanced maternal age isn't necessarily a hindrance.

12/31/2018

There is no “right way” to give birth. But there is a “right way” to be treated while you give birth. Humane, respectful, integrated maternity care for all.

12/30/2018

It amazes me

I honestly have no idea if she’s hungry or not ... and that’s okay.

Sometimes, I think she’s sure to be hungry ... and she’s not.
Other times, I’m sure she can’t possibly be hungry ... and she is.

One thing I’ve learned that has remained the same for each of my three children is that the only way to know my babes have had their hunger satiated is to offer them a nurse anytime I *think* they need it AND every time they ask ...

By doing it this way, I take the presumption away and leave it to their body to determine what they NEED.

Take last night for example, I could not have told you before each time my 5 month old latched, whether she was hopping on to *feed* or whether she needed to nurse ...

Just when I thought she couldn’t *possibly* be hungry, she woke and fed and fed and fed ...
When she’s slept a few hours solid, I presumed she’d be famished but a few butterfly suckles later and she was back out ...

It’s the same by day ...
Some days, my b***s will be bursting because she’s had such a fussy/ distracted day and then she’ll feed, feed, feed for hours
Other days, I have to flat pancakes for b***s because she’s barely made half an hour without latching.

Sometimes, she just needs a sip.
Other times a three course meal.
Sometimes, it’s 5 minutes after her previous nursing session.
Other times, more like 5 hours.

I trust her.
I trust her body.
I trust us.

This is the beauty of not questioning what she needs.
If a b**b will settle her, a b**b she gets ... whether it be to satiate her hunger, her thirst, her pains, her worries, her stress, her need for connection.

Nursing for whatever reason, is never a bad habit ... simply the biologically normal way to meet pretty much every need my baby has and that is pretty amazing 🤱🏻✨❤️

12/23/2018

"When you give birth, prepare to leave your dignity at the door"

NO! Just no.

Birth can be dignified. Birth doesn't have to be awful, traumatic and dehumanising. It's most certainly not shameful.

I've seen plenty of birthing women vomit, poo, sob, scream, groan and roar their way through labour. I have seen plenty of nudity, I've seen tousled hair and messy makeup, I've seen blood and sweat and tears. I have seen doctors and midwives perform examinations and stitch women up.

Never have I thought these things make birth "undignified" - they are simply RAW and POWERFUL in the most vulnerable way.

No, what makes a difference to how "dignified" or "undignified" birth is, is not the woman or the act of birth itself.

What makes a difference is how that woman is treated.

I see dignity when I see a midwife gently hold a mother's hair back as she vomits with each contraction, or places a cool wash cloth on her forehead.

I see dignity in the way a partner lovingly caresses their partner's back, or holds her face in their hands, or kisses her tenderly on her forehead.

I see dignity in the way a care provider quietly introduces themselves, and gently speaks to a woman between contractions, asking her permission for any checks/monitoring to be carried out and respecting her wishes.

I see dignity in the knowing glances and brief smiles between birth attendants as a mama powerfully roars and grunts her way through those final contractions, knowing baby is near.

I see dignity in the way a midwife or doula discreetly removes any poo (totally normal, people!!) as the baby makes room to be born, much of the time with the mama not even realising.

I see dignity when an anaesthetist whispers in a mama's ear, reassuring her that she hasn't failed.

I see dignity in the way the theatre room is quiet as baby is born, so that the first voices the baby hears are that of their parents.

I see dignity, when the woman is treated with respect, when she is treated as a human and not merely a "vessel".

So, do not expect us to lay down our dignity at the door. Instead, TREAT us with dignity and respect - blood, sweat, tears, poo, nudity and all. No matter how or where we birth. Allow us to be simultaneously vulnerable and powerful, and DIGNIFIED.